“The growing global backlash against China’s involvement in both the COVID-19 pandemic and Hong Kong political crisis is fueling a new brand of ‘wolf warrior’ diplomacy in Beijing aptly named after a nationalistic Chinese action movie.

The record-high unemployment rate of 17.7 percent in April does not reflect the true state of the Philippine economy and the jobs market as it was a result of the lockdown imposed by the government to prevent the further spread of COVID-19, the head of the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas.